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Avoiding duplicates
I was wondering if I could ask a question on meta whether some question is on the site or not. I'm asking this since sometimes one might ask a duplicate question which he/she searched for and didn't ...
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I wrongly flagged a question. What to do?
I just wrongly flagged the question Is this correct? $rH=Hr^{-1}$ as a duplicate of the question Show that the set $\{r^{-1} : r\in R \}$ contains exactly one element out of each right coset of $H$.. ...
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Why are there requirements for duplicated questions?
Today I found a questions to be a duplicate, and I even remembered that I gave an answer to the non-duplicate. As I tried to close the duplicate as a duplicate, it told me I can't choose the question ...
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Possible Duplicate notice, sans closing, is not attributed nor in the Revisions list
"Possible duplicate" warning after the first vote to close as a duplicate, is a new behavior. But it has some side effects:
it does not appear as an action in the revisions list of a posting,
the ...
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How to tackle “duplicate” problem?
I wanted a post a problem which was very different from my own post Multiple Choice question about a continuous function. But whenever I wanted to post it, it says that this question is an exact ...
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What's the point to close a question as a duplicate after an answer was posted?
For instance, I've voted to close this question as an exact duplicate, but now there are two answers added and one is already accepted. What's the point to close it now?
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Handling near duplicates
What is the best way to handle near duplicates? Here are two examples of what I mean.
This question asks about zero divisors in commutative rings. However, this older question asks a slightly more ...
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Abstract duplicate?
I have noticed two questions here and here which are nearly identical in nature. These questions ask to show that given any $n+1$ integers, there exist at least two integers whose difference is ...
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On duplicates and linking to the original question
One of the purposes of Stackexchange is to create a sort of library of questions, which is easily searchable.
Surely this means that when a question is closed as an exact duplicate a link should be ...
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What to do with a newer post and a related, older, less thorough post?
Let me give a specific example. Today, I answered this post, and my answer seemed familiar. Looking through my old answers, I found that I'd answered this post a while back. The older post is a less ...
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Voting to close as duplicate without taking the time to check if they are
This question has 4 votes to close as being an exact duplicate of this one. Within an hour of the question being asked, someone voted to close it as an exact duplicate AND Davide Giraudo pointed out, ...
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downvoting because of duplication?
This question has five downvotes, and was closed as a duplicate of a question with 25 up-votes. Should one down-vote a question merely because of duplication? There's no mention of anything wrong ...
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Reopening a 48/2(9+3) question (ambiguous order of operations)?
There was an internet meme started last year about ambiguously written arithmetical expressions leading to arguments for different possible values. Of course this is not a good place to host ...
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Should this question be closed as duplicate?
Here we have an interesting situation: the question
Is an algebraic integer all of whose conjugates have absolute value 1 a root of unity?
was asked. While there doesn't seem to be an exact ...
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Should identical answers on questions which are abstract duplicates of each other be allowed?
Let's say that a question is posted, asking how to find
$$\sum_{k=1}^n2k^2.$$
It is proposed that the question be closed as a duplicate of a much older one, asking how to find
$$\sum_{k=1}^nk^2,$$
but ...
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Should we close one of these questions about whether $\frac{1}{\infty}=0$ as a duplicate of the other?
This question and this question are both asking about $\frac{1}{\infty}=0$, though the first one is specifically asking about interpreting it in the context of probability. Should one of these ...
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More duplicates
I'm wondering if anything should be done about the following 3 questions which seem to me like duplicates (like merge them):
is there a converse for the following Theorem? Equivalent systems of ...
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Please comment on this possible answer for abstract duplicate of “integration by partial fractions”
I've expanded an old answer to include a general discussion of how to solve integrals by partial fractions.
Before I add it to the list of abstract duplicates, I'd appreciate corrections and ...
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Handling users asking lots of similar questions with little work
I realize that one of the major goals of this site is to help others learn and understand mathematics, and in fact it is one of my favorite parts of math.SE. As such, I don't mind a bit when I see a ...
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How do you search for duplicates
Sometimes I am really surprised how fast are the duplicates of new question found, given that we have vast amount of questions here.
I hope posting this question here can be useful and can lead to ...
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Duplicate Titles needing improvement and/or closed as duplicate
Inspired by a similar question on meta.stackoverflow, I just did this database query on math.se, and found 81 pairs of questions with totally identical title. (Ordered pairs where id1 < id2, ...
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Should we merge the questions on “self-studying abstract algebra”?
There are currently (as far as I know) three community wiki questions with largely the same premise: book recommendations for self-studying abstract algebra. They are
Good abstract algebra books for ...
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Canonical “-1 = 1” answer?
There are quite a few questions which involves "showing" $1=2$ or $0 = 1$ or $-1 = 1$ via incorrect algebraic manipulations of $i = \sqrt{-1}$.
Does anyone know if there is a "canonical" ...
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When are questions the same?
This is a rather philosophical question, but reflects the fact that essentially the same question can be asked at different levels of mathematical sophistication and with differing motivation.
Here ...
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Coping with *abstract* duplicate questions.
Any longtime reader cannot help but notice that we get many abstract duplicate questions, e.g. this recent question on partial fraction computation, which is not essentially different from many other ...
